Chapter 415 - A Profiteering Merchant (2/2)

It was because undead spirits were unique entities that made them incapable of devouring primordial lightning. Usually, only a minority of undead spirits which cultivated uncommon cultivation methods would need primordial lightning.

Other than that, primordial lightning was just something of very insignificant value.

Undead spirits could obtain a trace of undead spirit lightning power from the primordial lightning and consume it by paying a great price. However, this trace of lightning power was just equivalent to one-hundredth of the lightning power in a lightning jade.

Spending too much cost and effort to obtain just one-hundredth of the lightning power in a lightning jade was indeed somewhat wasteful. No one would do such a silly thing.

Hence, primordial lightning was useless rubbish to undead spirits.

Since Ning Fan had set his eyes upon trash and he even wanted to buy it, Lei Shiyi naturally would regard him less importantly.

“How do you sell these primordial lightning?”

“One silver jade for three traces of primordial lightning!” Even though Lei Shiyi’s heart was filled with disdain, his face still wore a generous and friendly smile.

One lightning jade for three pieces of garbage was considered to be an exorbitant price. He clearly wanted to swindle Ning Fan.

Besides, Lei Shiyi was certain that Ning Fan was just a novice that had yet to experience much in this world. He was also sure that it would be very easy to deceive him.

“One jade for three primordial lightning?” Ning Fan sounded a little surprised.

He could get a trace of primordial lightning and a lightning jade by killing a Divine Transformation Realm undead spirit. Logically speaking, the primordial spirit and the lightning jade should have equivalent prices.

However, the price that Lei Shiyi offered was one piece of silver jade for three traces of primordial lightning. It was a little too cheap to be honest.

This shockingly low price caused Ning Fan’s mind to be filled with thoughts. Without needing much time, he began to understand that primordial lightning was not as precious as silver jades in Lei Shiyi’s eyes.

When he took another glance at Lei Shiyi’s face, he found that there was a bit of contempt on his face even though it was hidden very deeply. It was as if he was teasing Ning Fan for buying a trash item.

Inwardly, Ning Fan guessed.

Could it be that primordial lightning doesn’t have much use to undead spirits and that’s why they are being sold at such a cheap price?

“One silver jade for ten traces of primordial lightning.” Ning Fan tried to bargain.

“What?! Ten for one jade? Little Friend, it’s already very cheap to sell you three traces of primordial lightning for only one silver jade. I’m actually offering you a price that will give me a loss! How could you still want to bargain with me?”

Lei Shiyi was dumbstruck for a while. He did not expect that Ning Fan would bargain with him.

“Twenty traces of primordial lightning for one silver jade.” Ning Fan once again lowered the price.

“Wait! I’m really at a loss in selling twenty of them for one jade! This is literally killing me. So it’s a no! I can’t accept selling at this price!”

“Thirty traces for one jade.” Ning Fan became even more certain that primordial lightning was extremely worthless to undead spirits!

“Wait! Little Friend, let’s discuss properly. What about trading the primordial spirit at the previous price? Ten traces for one silver jade… What do you think?!” Lei Shiyi’s expression became nervous. Ning Fan was bargaining very fiercely with him and the price he offered became lower and lower.

“Forty…”

“Wait! Alright! Thirty traces for one jade. Deal!” Lei Shiyi finally agreed with Ning Fan to end this sale. He was considerably afraid of Ning Fan now.

If he continues to bargain with Ning Fan, perhaps he could not even sell one hundred traces for a single silver jade.

Lei Shiyi stared deeply at Ning Fan. Now, he could tell that the latter was not a naive individual and he was not easy to hoodwink.

However, what Lei Shiyi found even more hard to understand was why an undead spirit who had a normal level of intelligence would be willing to use the extremely precious lightning jades to buy a pile of rubbish.

“What’s the point of thinking about that…?” Lei Shiyi shook his head.

All in all, these primordial lightning were just garbage to him. As long as he could sell them to Ning Fan and earn some money, that’s enough for him. He was lazy to even care about what Ning Fan was going to do with them.

“I have one thousand and two hundred traces of primordial lightning in stock. It’ll be forty silver jades. Please make your payment, thank you!” Lei Shiyi passed a storage pouch to Ning Fan with a smile and rubbed his hands together.

“If you have some primordial lightning next time, sell them all to me.” Ning Fan gave him forty silver jades and showed a satisfied smile.

“Don’t worry! This old man will take a trip back to the eleventh floor now to purchase more primordial lightning and then sell them all to you! This is my ‘Thunder Sound Jade’. If I amass enough primordial lightning, I will certainly contact you again.” Lei Shiyi gently thumped his chest and reassured Ning Fan.

With that elderly man’s status and connections, it was definitely not difficult for him to purchase some primordial lightning on the eleventh floor.

Moreover, the price of acquiring primordial lightning there would surely be really low. It could be one hundred traces of primordial lightning for one jade or possibly cheaper. Since they were considered trash in the eyes of the undead spirits, they could probably be obtained in many places.

Lei Shiyi felt rather satisfied after he managed to sell trash like primordial lightning to Ning Fan at such a high price.

I think I should get some more trash goods. Perhaps this little friend just loves buying them…

Ning Fan also shared the same mood as Lei Shiyi.

To the latter, primordial lightning might be trash. To Ning Fan, however, lightning jades were the true useless and worthless garbage.

Be it the silver grade lightning jade or the golden grade lightning jade, Ning Fan was unable to devour them like the undead spirits.

Hence, Ning Fan had without a doubt made a huge gain by exchanging one thousand and two hundred traces of primordial lightning with just forty pieces of garbage.

If he refines the one thousand and two hundred traces of primordial lightning, it would be a piece of cake for his lightning armor to break through to the fourth level. Moreover, it would even have a chance of advancing into the golden grade!

If Ning Fan gathered the one thousand and two hundred traces of primordial lightning himself, he would have to slaughter one thousand and two hundred Divine Transformation Realm undead spirits on his own.

Not to mention the danger and difficulty in performing such a large-scale slaughter, if he has to kill 1200 Divine Transformation Realm creatures, try to imagine how much time he would need to find them all and did he even have that much time to do so?

“Lei Shiyi… This profiteering merchant is quite useful to me. With him around, I don’t have to trouble myself in searching for primordial lightning.” Ning Fan muttered to himself.

He briefly scanned past the miscellaneous items that Lei Shiyi had taken out and his eyes suddenly flashed with interest again.

Among the pile of miscellaneous items, he discovered a cloud of dark sea green cold qi.

Lei Shiyi had placed that cloud of cold qi at an insignificant corner like trash. It was as if he did not regard that item as important at all.

To Ning Fan, however, that item was definitely not trash!

“Heavenly Cold Qi!”

Ning Fan’s heart was filled with amazement. He did not expect that he could actually find a type of Heavenly Cold Qi at this place. Well, since he had found it, he, of course, would want to acquire it.

His face did not reflect his internal feelings. He raised his hand casually and pointed at the Heavenly Cold Qi disdainfully. Then, he asked with an unconcerned tone.

“What is this? How much will you sell it for?”

“Oh? Is Little Friend asking about this? It is a type of Fifth Grade cold qi. But I don’t really know much about it. Little Friend, you should know that cold qi belongs to the water element whereas us undead spirits who were born in this lightning tower manifested from the lightning element. To us, the treasures and items of the water element are completely useless… Do you want to buy it?”

Lei Shiyi’s eyes glinted. Indeed, his judgement was correct.

Ning Fan was a strange person. Even though he was not easy to deceive, he particularly loved buying different kinds of trash.

What bloody use would a Fifth Grade cold qi have for undead spirits? Only a fool would exchange it with lightning jades.

However, if Ning Fan wanted to be that kind of fool, Lei Shiyi would completely have no opinion about it.

Since Ning Fan expressed his desire for this cold qi, Lei Shiyi would surely make an exaggerated boast about it as if it was falling flowers no matter how worthless this item was in the first place.

“Hehe. Little Friend really has good taste. Even though this cold qi is useless to our kind, it could also be refined into a magic treasure to enhance its destructive power. However, this item is something that was left to me by my beloved wife. It always reminds me of her whenever I see it. Thus, I am really reluctant to part with it. However, if Little Friend really wants it, the only option I have is to reluctantly give it up… Mates’ rate, twenty pieces of lightning jades!”

“Five pieces of lightning jade.” Ning Fan indifferently replied, ignoring Lei Shiyi’s long-winded speech.

“Little Friend, selling this cold qi for five pieces of lightning jade is really a bit low…”

“Three pieces of lightning jade!” Ning Fan began to reduce the price.

“Fine! Three pieces of lightning jade. It’s a deal!” The elderly man became smarter this time. He knew that if he continued to bargain with Ning Fan, he would not have hope of selling this cold qi for even one lightning jade.

Since it was just a piece of garbage, it was already profitable selling it for three pieces of lightning jade.

Hence, why not agree to that price? Besides, how could it be possible for Lei Shiyi to refuse selling it?

Now, he was even more certain that he must gather countless trash in the future and sell them all to Ning Fan, a king in collecting garbage!

Ning Fan paid for the item and kept the Heavenly Cold Qi. Being despised by Lei Shiyi all this while was not comfortable at all.

However, since the latter could sell him some good things, he did not intend to make a fuss about how he felt.

Forty silver jades for one thousand two hundred traces of primordial lightning. It was a good trade.

Three silver jades for a type of Heavenly Cold Qi. If cultivators in the outside world find out about such a good deal in this place, they would certainly rush to this place to exchange for it without any regard for other things.

Other than these undead spirits like Lei Shiyi who lived in this Black Lightning Tower, who else would treat the Heavenly Cold Qi as trash?

The Heavenly Cold Qi is really undervalued here…

“Hehe! This old man is going to make a move now! When I gather some good things, I will come and trade with Little Friend again.” Lei Shiyi gave Ning Fan a wretched smile and disappeared.

Ning Fan did not care. He only stared at the cloud of dark green cold qi in his palm, carefully identifying it.

“Is it… the Long Sentiment Tears, a Heavenly Cold Qi which is ranked second of the twelve? A drop of tear creates affection, another drop of tear severes the affection. According to rumors, if one refines this cold qi, the Dao Heart of a cultivator will be as firm as a rock, just like a loyal and faithful young lady whose heart will never be swayed by any external things.”

“Just depending on this divine effect of fortifying one’s Dao Heart, this item can at least sell for five hundred million immortal jade in the Endless Sea!”

“Unfortunately, Lei Shiyi really does not know about how good this thing is… Buying a casket of pearl but returning the pearl and keeping the casket instead. That saying really fits the description of this person.”

Translated by Tommy, edited by Roel